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Alex Homer shares much information in this multi-part article on enhancing the accessibility of your ASP .Net 2.0. The first part of this series deals with accessibility in general: “Web pages today are very different from the original vision of the World Wide Web pioneers. They saw it as a sharing and publishing environment […]
Multimodal interaction systems combine visual information (involving images, text, sketches and so on) with voice, gestures and other modalities to provide flexible and powerful dialogue approaches, enabling users to choose one or more of the multiple interaction modalities. They break down the barriers in adopting mobile devices for value-added services and the use of integrated […]
In the beginning it was to overcome a specific problem. Now it’s there just for the joy of web developers everywhere.
“The essence of Pixy’s Fast Rollovers involves creating one image for each navigation item that includes normal, hover and active states stacked on top of each other. Later, we’ll use CSS to change the […]
“Audio and video podcasts are not accessible to deaf (audio) or blind (video) individuals. Accessibility of emerging technologies is always an issue that I try to deal with early on in the process of rolling it out. Being at a diverse university, and it is highly important that all that my team does be usable […]
“Misunderstanding #1: “We Need Separate Print Pages” We’ve all seen this – a separate print page, linked to from a crowded, table-layoutish HTML page, aiming to serve no other need than being printed out (it fails, because bloggers link to print pages – they’re mostly easier to read and not split up into multiple pages). […]
Accessibility languages and techniques can only function so far as the user understands them. In addition to that, features can be maximized with awareness. “The virtual buffer is referred to as Virtual PC Cursor mode in JAWS. Virtual PC Cursor mode is enabled by default when viewing HTML documents in supported applications (such […]
Web developer James Edwards would probably almost go so far as to say that it’s offensive to him when people complain that web accessibility is a cumbersome process. To help fight this idea, he has created an article bringing up something that many of us may not think of; mouse-less navigation. “Most of […]
“Although MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) also looks at content and coding, SMIL is more web-centric unlike MPEG, which is more media centric and involves more than just content and coding. A close comparison would be D-HTML (dynamic hypertext markup language). However, D-HTML uses scripted definitions of local behaviours, without a notion of the presentation’s […]
“Visually impaired users rely on alternative text for a description of what an image conveys. Using alternative text, you can provide a text description that conveys the same information as the information you are trying to communicate through the image that the text is associated with.
You can customize the alternative text displayed for images by […]
“If you want your website to be accessible there are two things you absolutely have to do:
Specify that accessibility is essential in your requirements definition.
Arrange that the site is tested for accessibility.
The first requires a bit more than just saying “the site must be accessible” but there are lots of examples of such requirements and […]